Abstract: A robot teleoperation control device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires operator state information of a state of an operator who operates a robot, an intention estimation unit that estimates an intention of the operator to cause the robot to perform a motion on the basis of the operator state information, a second acquisition unit that acquires at least one of geometric information and dynamic information of the object, an operation method determination unit that determines a method of operating the object based on the estimated motion intention of the operator, and a control amount determination unit that determines a method of operating the robot and force during operation from the information acquired by the second acquisition unit and information determined by the operation method determination unit and reflects the result in a control instruction.

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating predictive maintenance of an equipment is disclosed. The system may include a data capturer, a plurality of edge computing nodes and a cloud computing device. Each edge computing node may include a first processor. The cloud computing device may include a second processor. The first processor may receive the raw input data from the data capturer and may process the raw input data to obtain a representative data. The representative data may include an insight pertaining to a deviation in the at least one variable and a corresponding remedial action to be taken to correct the deviation. The deviation may be related to a deterioration in the condition of the equipment. The respective edge computing node may facilitate a regulation of the deviation by performing an automated actuation based on the corresponding remedial action.

Abstract: Systems and methods for viseme data generation are disclosed. Uncompressed audio data is generated and/or utilized to determine the beats per minute of the audio data. Visemes are associated with the audio data utilizing a Viterbi algorithm and the beats per minute. A time-stamped list of viseme data is generated that associates the visemes with the portions of the audio data that they correspond to. An animatronic toy and/or an animation is caused to lip sync using the viseme data while audio corresponding to the audio data is output.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that aid users with hearing and/or speech impediments to have a conversation with a remote phone number without human assistance. In one aspect, an application residing on a user's device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, laptop, etc., may be used to initiate a phone call to a recipient. Upon initiating the phone call locally, a service residing on the server may receive a request to initiate a connection to the recipient. Once the recipient answers, the user may converse with the recipient by providing text input to their local app. The text input may be transmitted to the service. The service may use a text to speech converter to translate the received text to speech that can be delivered to the recipient.

Abstract: A graphics design system provides intuitive 3D transformations for 2D objects. A user interface element is presented on 2D object or group of 2D objects. The user interface element comprises a combination of components for applying different 3D transformations, including at least one rotation component for rotating a 2D object or group of 2D objects around an axis and at least one translation component for translating the 2D object or group of 2D objects along at least one axis. 3D transformations are non-destructive and performed relative to axes local to a 2D object or 2D objects. When a 2D object or group of 2D objects is rotated around an axis, the other axes are rotated. As such, subsequent rotations and translations are performed based on the rotated axes. Additionally, editing actions associated with rotated 2D object(s) are performed in the rotated x-y plane of the rotated 2D object(s).

Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting and mitigating the effects of time of flight interference of a radio frequency (RF) signal are provided. A wireless communication network may determine, based on one or more parameters being sufficiently different than a baseline value, that time of flight interference is occurring based on the undesirable propagation of a first cell's downlink signals into a second cell's coverage area. In response to the determination, the network may identify an offending base station and modify the RF transmission characteristics of the offending base station to prevent or mitigate the impact of the interference event on the RF signal's propagation.

Abstract: A rotary pump conversion unit for a drywall pump is provided. The rotary pump conversion unit may allow a rotating drive shaft to convert momentum into vertical movement of a driven shaft. The driven shaft may be used to pump drywall mud into a drywall mud applicator. A major benefit of the present device is that the present rotary pump conversion unit for a drywall pump, taper, flat finisher, corner unit, etc. may be used in connection with a motorized drill as opposed to having to manually pump the device.

Abstract: A method for generating a limitless path in a virtual reality environment (VR) for a continuous locomotion within a real physical space using Head-Mounted-Display (HMD) device associated with a user is provided. The method includes determining a line segment between two points that corresponds to an initial path travelled by the user. The method includes detecting a boundary of the VR environment to generate a next line segment. The method includes generating and adding a new line segment to end of the initial path. The method includes generating and adding the new line segment to the end of the next line segment. The method includes generating an updated path by adding the new line segment in a direction at the angle of shift angle to the direction of the next line segment. The method includes, configuring to output updated path as two-dimensional points to render updated path into VR environment.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for deploying intent-driving cloud branches. An example method can include obtaining, by one or more controllers in a software-defined network (SDN), a branch network design template for deploying a remote branch in the SDN, wherein the branch network design template defines networking settings for a plurality of services to be provisioned at the remote branch; obtaining, by the one or more controllers, a plurality of software packages for the plurality of services to be provisioned at the remote branch; and based on the branch network design template and the plurality of software packages, provisioning, by the one or more controllers, the plurality of services at the remote branch and a network connectivity of the plurality of services.

Abstract: State of the art systems used for industrial plant monitoring have the disadvantage that they fail to correctly assess reason for dip in performance of the plant and in turn trigger appropriate corrective measures. The disclosure herein generally relates to industrial plant monitoring, and, more particularly, to a system and method for development and deployment of self-organizing cyber-physical systems for manufacturing industries. The system monitors and collects data with respect to various parameters, from the industrial plant. If any performance dip is detected, the system determines corresponding cause, and also triggers one or more corrective actions to improve performance of the plant and different plant components to a desired performance level.

Abstract: Provided are systems and method for obtaining electric signal biosignal readings using a portable device.

Abstract: Technologies are shown for selecting a provider to service a client service request using a predictive metrics based consensus protocol to select a provider and create a service request transaction block to service the client service request. A client service request is received and forwarded to a set of providers. Proposed transactions are received from the providers and scored based on a predictive metric. A proposal transaction is selected based on the scoring and the selected transaction is written as a block on a service transaction blockchain. The provider for the selected transaction detects the block on the blockchain and performs the requested service. The client detects the block on the blockchain and transfers payment to the provider. Selection can be based on predictive metrics in the providers or macro metrics determined in miner nodes in combination with provider reputation, currency, load sharing, fairness, provisioning, and static and dynamic criteria.

Abstract: The method for inferring epileptogenicity of a brain region not observed as recruited or not observed as not recruited, in a seizure activity of an epileptic patient brain, includes: providing a computerized model modelling various regions of a primate brain and connectivity between the regions; providing the computerized model with a model able to reproduce an epileptic seizure dynamic in the primate brain; providing structural data of the epileptic patient brain and personalizing the computerized model using the structural data to obtain a virtual epileptic patient (VEP) brain model; translating a state-space representation of the VEP brain model into a probabilistic programming language (PPL) using probabilistic state transitions to obtain a probabilistic virtual epileptic patient brain model (BVEP); and acquiring electro- or magneto-encephalographic data of the patient brain and fitting the probabilistic VEP brain model against the data to infer the epileptogenicity of the brain region that is not observe

Abstract: A wireless user device wirelessly receives an indication of selected resource blocks in a frequency channel that are selected for radio signal measurement and unselected resource blocks in the frequency channel that are unselected for the radio signal measurement. The wireless user device wirelessly measures a radio signal metric for the selected resource blocks in the radio channel and does not measure the radio signal metric for the unselected resource blocks in the radio channel. The wireless user device wirelessly transfers the radio signal metric for the selected resource blocks in the radio channel. The wireless user device wirelessly receives a schedule for the selected resource blocks in the radio channel. The wireless user device wirelessly receives data over the selected resource blocks in the radio channel based on the schedule.

Abstract: A task pool may be created and maintained, in association with a container management service, which stores a snapshot of a one or more tasks, the performance of which is suspended or paused. Tasks may be defined as applications executable in one or more software containers instantiated on a virtual machine or compute instance, where the snapshot of a task may include an image of the one or more containers associated with the task container and state information of the one or more containers. A task may be initially provisioned in a paused state or paused after executing at least a portion of the task. Paused tasks in the task pool may be readily restarted or resumed by loading the snapshot onto a compute instance. The task pool may manage provisioning new tasks and pause tasks based on changes in demand.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for establishing the reliability of crowd sourced data based on the source of the data and the region in which the data is gathered. Methods may include: receiving map data for a network of roads in a geographic area; receiving location accuracy data from different regions within the geographic area, where the location accuracy data for each region may be indicative of an accuracy with which location can be established in the respective region; receiving a plurality of probe data points; determining, for each probe data point, the location accuracy data associated with the location information associated with the respective probe apparatus; determining, for each probe apparatus, a reliability of the one or more sensors; and updating a map database based on at least one probe data point.

Abstract: A task definition is received. The task definition indicates at least a location from which one or more software image can be obtained and information usable to determine an amount of resources to allocate to one or more software containers for the one or more software image. A set of virtual machine instances in which to launch the one or more software containers is determined, the one or more software image is obtained from the location included in the task definition and is launched as the one or more of software containers within the set of virtual machine instances.

Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods to load balance using tenant affinities. A method includes configuring a load balancer with a set of tenant affinities, the set of tenant affinities including a tenant affinity for each of a plurality of tenants with respect to each of a plurality of computing nodes that provide services to users in a multitenant environment. Load balancing may include receiving a user request, associated with a tenant, for a service provided by the computing nodes, determining a highest tenant affinity computing node for the tenant using the set of tenant affinities and directing the user request to the highest tenant affinity computing node for the tenant.

Abstract: A method for pollutant sensor placement for pollutants from point sources is described. Data about environmental characteristics for a geographic region are received from a plurality of environmental sensors. The geographic region includes pollutant sources that emit a pollutant. The received data from one or more of the plurality of environmental sensors are transformed into common data having a common spatial and temporal discretization across the geographic region. Predicted emission plumes are generated for the pollutant sources within the geographic region that identify pollutant detection regions for the pollutant when the pollutant is emitted by the pollutant sources using the common data. Sensor locations for a plurality of pollutant sensors are greedily selected across the common spatial and temporal discretization according to a number of predicted emission plumes that are detectable by the plurality of pollutant sensors.

Abstract: A computing device has an energy storage device system with multiple energy storage devices. Various different criteria are used to determine which one or more of the multiple energy storage devices to charge or discharge at any given time to provide power to the computing device. The criteria can include characteristics of the energy storage devices as well as hardware and/or physical characteristics of the computing device, characteristics of the energy storage devices and/or the computing device that change while the computing device operates, and predicted behavior or usage of the computing device. These criteria are evaluated during operation of the computing device, and the appropriate energy storage device(s) from which to draw power or to charge at any given time based on these criteria are determined.